Copyright 2010 The Legal Project Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:03:59 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Legal Project :: Writings http://www.legal-project.org goldstein@meforum.org (The Legal Project) webmaster@meforum.org en-us http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2010/02/stacking-the-deck-against-geert-wilders Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:35:37 EST In a brief courtroom session today, Amsterdam's District Court found it had jurisdiction to hear the case against Geert Wilders for "inciting hatred," and further announced it would allow only 3 of the 18 witnesses Wilders had requested. Wilders had http://www.legal-project.org/article/619 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST [Published as: Islamists' New Weapon: Libel Law] Libel suits are not normally associated with national security, but a case the Texas Supreme Court ruled on January 15 carries just such implications. The suit against internet journalist Joe Kaufman is a http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2010/01/the-oic-shows-not-all-condemnations-are-equal Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:43:43 EST The Organization of the Islamic Conference's (OIC) recent condemnation of extremist Muslim violence would be absolutely remarkable except for one small problem – there's no reason to believe that the OIC actually meant a word of it. On January 3, the OIC http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2010/01/liberty-on-trial-in-dutch-court Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:44:47 EST On January 7th, it was reported that Minnesota prosecutors had declined to prosecute a man who had posted anti-Muslim images, on the grounds that it was, as Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall aptly put it, a "classic First Amendment case." Indeed, http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2009/12/oic-places-the-united-states-in-its-crosshairs Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:26:00 EST On December 23-24, 2009, the Organization of the Islamic Conference ("OIC") and the League of Arab States held a joint high level conference in Cairo to develop a strategy for addressing 'Islamophobia.' As the conference proceeded, the OIC issued two http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2009/12/tough-times-for-libel-abusers-in-the-uk Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:40:00 EST On December 10th, the New York Times reported on efforts to reform Britain's plaintiff-friendly libel laws, which have been widely criticized as easily abused, particularly by Islamists eager to silence critics. Those familiar with the broader struggle http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2009/10/for-geert-wilders-law-finally-triumphs-over Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:56:59 EST On October 13th, the United Kingdom's Asylum and Immigration Tribunal issued a ruling overturning an earlier decision by the Home Office to refuse entry to Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders, on the absurd grounds that his presence in the UK might http://www.legal-project.org/article/460 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST On Tuesday, August 18, the Saudi Arabia-based Arab News reported that Khalid bin Mahfouz, the Saudi billionaire perhaps best known in the West as the "Libel Tourist" for his penchant for using U.K. connections to bring libel lawsuits against his critics http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2009/08/islamist-friendly-self-censorship-in-the-united Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:57:00 EST Islamist attempts to suppress the free discussion of radical Islam take many different forms, but the most difficult effect of these attempts to document may well be self-censorship. Indeed, Islamist lawfare may well be likened to an iceberg, with http://www.legal-project.org/article/372 Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EST  Over the past 10 years, the world has seen a growing number of malicious lawsuits in American courts and abroad, filed by adherents of radical strains of Islam designed to punish and silence those who engage in public discourse about radical Islam, http://www.legal-project.org/article/327 Tue, 19 May 2009 09:00:00 EST The United Nations recently passed resolutions that would make "defaming" Islam a globally criminal act. The United Kingdom first refused entry to Geert Wilders, a sitting European Parliament member and Islamist critic, and now has issued a list banning http://www.legal-project.org/article/325 Tue, 19 May 2009 09:00:00 EST The phenomenon known as Islamist "lawfare," or the use of Western legal systems to achieve the goals of radical Islam, has taken a variety of forms during its rise over the past ten years. Generally, lawfare may be roughly divided into two categories: http://www.legal-project.org/article/318 Thu, 14 May 2009 09:00:00 EST Lawfare is traditionally defined as the use of the law as a weapon of war, or the pursuit of strategic aims through aggressive legal maneuvers. Over the past ten years, we have seen a steady increase in lawfare tactics directly targeting the human rights http://www.legal-project.org/article/294 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EST  Are American authors who write about terrorism and its sources of financing safe? Are counter-terrorist advisors to the New York City Police department safe? Are U.S. congressmen safe when they report terrorist front groups to the FBI and CIA? Are http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2009/04/the-oics-back-door-blasphemy-campaign-at-durban-ii Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:41:00 EST One of the few relatively positive developments to have emerged from the UN debacle known as Durban II was the deletion from the draft resolution of language calling for the international criminalization of "defamation of religion." Without going into a